
Igor Dmitriev
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (12/10/1963). People's Artist of the RSFSR (08/15/1988). Academician of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia. Member of the English Club and the World Club of Petersburgers. The future actor participated in school amateur performances, studied in the pioneer song and dance ensemble of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. He made his film debut at the age of 12 - the first role was a Polish high school student in V. Fainberg's film "The Voice of Taras". During the Great Patriotic War, together with his mother, he ended up in the city of Molotov (Perm), where they were evacuated along with the Mariinsky Theater and the choreographic school. In 1943 he entered the theater studio at the Perm Drama Theatre, after classes he stayed for performances, played in crowd scenes. In September 1944 he came to Moscow to enter the theater institute. He entered the V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Theater, in the class of People's Artists of the USSR Pavel Vladimirovich Massalsky and Sergei Kapitonovich Blinnikov. In 1948 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and was accepted into the troupe of the Leningrad Drama Theater, which now bears the name of Vera Fedorovna Komissarzhevskaya. After leaving the theater, he became an actor at the Lenfilm Film Actor Studio. The first significant film role was Yevgeny Listnitsky in the film Quiet Flows the Don (1957). In addition to the domestic actor, he worked a lot at film studios in Hungary, Poland, the GDR, the USA, Morocco, Algeria. Igor Dmitriev is the author of about 30 TV programs from the cycle "At Igor D..." on television in St. Petersburg. This cycle was awarded the Golden Horse Grand Prix at the Velvet Season international festival. In 1984, Igor Dmitriev was accepted into the troupe of the Leningrad Academic Comedy Theater named after N.P. Akimov, on the stage of which he made his debut in the role of Chinzanov in the play based on the play by Sergei Mikhalkov "Kings Can Do Everything". The return of the actor to the theater stage was a notable event in the cultural life of Leningrad in 1984. Collaborated with the St. Petersburg Theater "Russian Entreprise" named after Andrei Mironov and played in the play "Talents and Admirers" at the Bolshoi Drama Theater named after G.A. Tovstonogov. Igor Dmitriev revived the genre of melody and, having managed to achieve a true harmony of sound and word, was the only Russian actor who mastered this art. For the anniversary of the actor, the Rossiya TV channel shot a documentary film about the life and work of Igor Dmitriev "People's Marquis of the Soviet Union" (2007).
Filmography

Far from Sunset Boulevard
as Konstantin Dalmatov in old age
Far from Sunset Boulevard
as Konstantin Dalmatov in old age

Signs of Love
Signs of Love
Скамейка
as Рассказчик
Скамейка
as Рассказчик

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family
The Romanovs: A Crowned Family

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family
The Romanovs: A Crowned Family

Return of the "Battleship"
Return of the "Battleship"

The Great Turan
The Great Turan

The Wheel of Love
as Andrey Dmitrievich
The Wheel of Love
as Andrey Dmitrievich

Joy Ride
as Шурик
Joy Ride
as Шурик

To Whom Will God Send
as Rodion Zosimovskiy
To Whom Will God Send
as Rodion Zosimovskiy

Beautiful Stranger
Beautiful Stranger

Goblin Sanctuary
Goblin Sanctuary

Detective Bureau "Felix"
Detective Bureau "Felix"

Shakh's Diamonds
Shakh's Diamonds

Tartuffe
as Клеант
Tartuffe
as Клеант

The Confession of a Kept Woman
The Confession of a Kept Woman

Fufel
as Арвид Янович Лещенко
Fufel
as Арвид Янович Лещенко

And to Hell with Us!
And to Hell with Us!

Drums of Fire
Drums of Fire

When the Saints March
When the Saints March

Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac

Bright Personality
as Бернардов
Bright Personality
as Бернардов

The Watchmaker and the Chicken
The Watchmaker and the Chicken

Don Cesar de Bazan
as Don Jose
Don Cesar de Bazan
as Don Jose

Snitch
Snitch

The Gypsy Baron
as Omonay
The Gypsy Baron
as Omonay

The Tale About the Enamored Painter
as придворный лекарь
The Tale About the Enamored Painter
as придворный лекарь

White curse
White curse

Happy Birthday, or Incognito
Happy Birthday, or Incognito

Цирк приехал
as владелец цирка
Цирк приехал
as владелец цирка

Disc Jockey
as (uncredited)
Disc Jockey
as (uncredited)
A Happy Accident
as newspaperman
A Happy Accident
as newspaperman

Red Shoes
as Vodyanoy
Red Shoes
as Vodyanoy

The Hobbit: The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins
as Gollum
The Hobbit: The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins
as Gollum

Wonder Season
as Игорь Борисович
Wonder Season
as Игорь Борисович

Men Are Men
Men Are Men

The Lonely Businessman's Big Score
as Loretti
The Lonely Businessman's Big Score
as Loretti

Makar - Pathfinder
as Offizier Antanty
Makar - Pathfinder
as Offizier Antanty

Fairies' Autumn Gift
as General
Fairies' Autumn Gift
as General

The Scoundrel, or Running On the Spot
as человек в бане, друг Михаила Михайловича
The Scoundrel, or Running On the Spot
as человек в бане, друг Михаила Михайловича

Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician
as First Minister
Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician
as First Minister

The Highway
as Double
The Highway
as Double

Anna Pavlova
as Léon Bakst
Anna Pavlova
as Léon Bakst
The Murderer Receives the Goncourt Prize
as teacher
The Murderer Receives the Goncourt Prize
as teacher

Near the Dangerous Line
Near the Dangerous Line

The Pokrovsky Gates
as Глеб Орлович
The Pokrovsky Gates
as Глеб Орлович

За синими ночами
За синими ночами

For No Apparent Reason
as Эдуард Алмазов, режиссер драмкружка
For No Apparent Reason
as Эдуард Алмазов, режиссер драмкружка

Big Boy
Big Boy

Vladivostok, Year 1918
Vladivostok, Year 1918

Sold Laughter
as podruchnyy barona
Sold Laughter
as podruchnyy barona

Only in the Music Hall
Only in the Music Hall

My Father Is an Idealist
My Father Is an Idealist

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Hunting the Tiger
as Inspector Gregson
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Hunting the Tiger
as Inspector Gregson

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Bloody Inscription
as Inspector Gregson
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Bloody Inscription
as Inspector Gregson

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Acquaintance
as Inspector Gregson
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Acquaintance
as Inspector Gregson

The Piggy Bank
as Бешю
The Piggy Bank
as Бешю

A Declaration of Love
as passenger of steamship
A Declaration of Love
as passenger of steamship

Feedback
Feedback

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
as Гарунский (мечтающий пассажир электрички, новелла «На волоске»)
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
as Гарунский (мечтающий пассажир электрички, новелла «На волоске»)
Младший научный сотрудник
Младший научный сотрудник

Yaroslavna, Queen of France
Yaroslavna, Queen of France

Unfinished Conversation
Unfinished Conversation

How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder
as King
How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder
as King

Trust
as Bontsh-Brujevitsh
Trust
as Bontsh-Brujevitsh

Spring of the Twenty-Ninth
Spring of the Twenty-Ninth

For Better and for Worse
as Людвиг Лебцельтерн, граф, австрийский посланник в Петербурге
For Better and for Worse
as Людвиг Лебцельтерн, граф, австрийский посланник в Петербурге

Open Book
Open Book

Where are you, Knights?
as Kim Yermilov
Where are you, Knights?
as Kim Yermilov

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
as Höfling
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
as Höfling

Dreams of Love
as Prince Wittgenstein
Dreams of Love
as Prince Wittgenstein

The Old House
as Vasiliy Petrovich
The Old House
as Vasiliy Petrovich

Honore de Balzac's Mistake
as Davydov
Honore de Balzac's Mistake
as Davydov

A Very Old Story
A Very Old Story

Intervention
as озвучание - полковник Несвицкий (роль Анатолия Шведерского)
Intervention
as озвучание - полковник Несвицкий (роль Анатолия Шведерского)

Crazy Money
as Глумов
Crazy Money
as Глумов

Operation 'Trust'
as episode
Operation 'Trust'
as episode

No Password Necessary
No Password Necessary

Nikolay Bauman
as Kachalov
Nikolay Bauman
as Kachalov

Noah's Ark
as Дьявол
Noah's Ark
as Дьявол

Little Hare
as актёр Игорь Борисович
Little Hare
as актёр Игорь Борисович

Hamlet
as Rosencrantz
Hamlet
as Rosencrantz

Cain the XVIII-th
Cain the XVIII-th

Black Gull
as Wounded Man
Black Gull
as Wounded Man

Virgin Soil Upturned
Virgin Soil Upturned

Quiet Flows the Don
as Евгений Листницкий
Quiet Flows the Don
as Евгений Листницкий

She Loves You
She Loves You